Drobo Roboticsl User manual

User Guide
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I. Introduction........................................................................................1
II. Getting started ...................................................................................3
Three easy steps ........................................................................................ 3
Selecting hard drives.................................................................................. 3
Choosing capacity ................................................................................... 4
A note about drive capacity .................................................................... 4
Keeping your product up-to-date .............................................................. 4
Best Practices............................................................................................. 4
III. Drobo Dashboard Overview ...............................................................5
Drobo Dashboard basics ............................................................................ 5
The main page......................................................................................... 5
Advanced Controls: Data tab .................................................................. 6
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ................................................................. 6
Additional features ................................................................................. 6
Keeping Drobo Dashboard up-to-date.................................................... 7
IV. Drobo Setup........................................................................................8
Inserting drives into Drobo ........................................................................ 8
Connect Drobo to your computer.............................................................. 8
USB 2.0.................................................................................................. 10
FireWire 800 (2nd Generation Drobo and Drobo S)............................... 10
eSATA (Drobo S) .................................................................................... 10
Connect power......................................................................................... 10
Connect your 1st and 2nd Generation (only) Drobo to a network using
DroboShare .............................................................................................. 11
Initialize your Drobo ................................................................................ 11
Picking a file system and volume size ................................................... 11
Formatting for PC using Drobo Dashboard ........................................... 12
Formatting for Mac using Drobo Dashboard ........................................ 14
Formatting with DroboShare using Drobo Dashboard ......................... 15
Drobo Lights............................................................................................. 15
Using Drobo Dashboard with your Drobo................................................ 16
Advanced Controls: Data tab ................................................................ 17
Advanced Controls: Tools tab ............................................................... 17

What to do when not using your Drobo .................................................. 19
V. DroboShare.......................................................................................21
Connect 1st or 2nd Generation (only) Drobo to DroboShare .................... 21
Formatting with DroboShare using Drobo Dashboard ............................ 21
DroboShare Lights.................................................................................... 23
DroboShare settings ................................................................................ 24
VI. Sharing Drobo between computers .................................................25
Using DroboShare to connect your Drobo to a network (1st/2nd
Generation Drobo only) ........................................................................ 25
Move Drobo between computers......................................................... 25
Using your computer ............................................................................ 25
VII. Tips and Troubleshooting.................................................................26
VIII.Index .................................................................................................35

1
Thank you for giving another Drobo® storage device a good home! We
at Data Robotics, Inc.™have been working since 2004 to make
protecting, storing and managing your digital content truly effortless.
The Drobo family of products provides effortless, safe and expandable
storage. There are many different ways to store and protect digital
content, but Drobo is the only fully automatic storage device that
performs many data management tasks without user effort. Here’s
what you can expect:
Drobo automatically configures itself for data protection so you
don’t have to.
When a drive fails, your data is still safe (and all drives do
eventually fail).
Drobo senses any corrupted data and ensures that you only
access non-corrupt data.
No downtime to add capacity. Just add a drive to an empty Data
Bay, or replace a smaller drive with a larger one regardless of
capacity, speed, or manufacturer.
After a drive is installed into an empty bay, the new drive
capacity is immediately available and protected.
Drobo can act as one large drive, making it easier to find what
you’ve stored on it.
Drobo’s Data Bay indicator lights tell you everything you need to
know!
Upgrading capacity is as simple as adding ink to a printer.
Mix ’n match any 3.5” (SATA) hard drives; no worrying about
matching make, model or capacity of Drobo’s existing drives.
Upgrade forever—just replace Drobo’s smallest drive with a
larger capacity drive. No data migration or reconfiguration is
required.
What does it mean to go BeyondRAID? Going beyond traditional RAID
means leaving choices between striping and mirroring, limitations on